Trans-Nanny State PING!
Posted on 05/13/2015 9:27:11 AM PDT by wagglebee
FALLS CHURCH, VA, May 12, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hundreds of parents accused Fairfax County School Board (FCSB) members of endangering their children and caving to the Obama administration as the school board voted to allow transgender teens to use the locker rooms and bathrooms of the opposite sex.
The new policy may also allow transgender teachers to show their gender dysphoria openly in the classroom.
The motion to add "gender identity" as a protected class– which passed 10-1, with one abstentation – was sparked by the Obama administration's threat to deny the district $42 million in federal funding.
According to FoxNews.com and The Washington Post, that would amount to 1.7 percent of the education budget in the nation's largest school district.
The blackmail and the council's apparent secrecy led to outrage among parents who attended the school board's meeting last Thursday, where opponents outnumbered supporters at least eight-to-one.
Several school board members argued that there was no attempt to go around parents, with one member saying that the board acted within its normal routes of communication – a notice three weeks before the vote, discussion at the board's normal meeting two weeks before the vote, and then a vote last week.
Board member Megan McLaughlin said that there was no need for a larger debate, because this was an update to the protected classes of the school system, and not a new policy creating favored groups. McLaughlin also said that school operations would not change in any way as a result of the new policy.
The change was oreceded by a legal opinion from Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, a Democrat, who in March said that school boards have the authority to include sexual orientation and gender identity as special classes. But it was the threat of a loss of federal education dollars that provided the impetus for several school board members.
President Obama's threat to deny children federal money was in keeping with his administration's new interpretation of the 1972 Title IX law.
Last April, the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights decided that gender identity is a protected class, and that Title IX, which only bars sexual discrimination, will now be treated as though it “extends to claims of discrimination based on gender identity or failure to conform to stereotypical notions of masculinity or femininity.”
The FCSB meeting was often heated, with numerous comparisons made to race-based discrimination, including slavery, by board members. After the vote, LGBT activist and Equality Virginia board member Catherine Read told LifeSiteNews.com that "if people really clung to these things, we'd still have slavery, women still wouldn't have the vote, and this would still be a black high school." Read said the issue is "about civil rights."
Multiple board members accused parents who opposed the change of acting out of "fear."
The only board member to oppose the measure, Elizabeth Schultz, argued that implementation costs could harm the school district, which is running a deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars. Its supporters countered that losing federal money would also hurt students.
Supporters frequently noted that adding gender identity to protected classes would change "nothing" at schools, to which Schultz and many parents asked, if that were true, why the change was necessary.
Schultz – who made a motion that the gender identity change be pushed back until October so that the board could investigate the costs associated with the change, as well as whether such a change is necessary, and how schools could adjust if the board backed the gender identity addition – walked out of the meeting when the final transgender recognition measure was passed without such consideration.
Schultz told LifeSiteNews.com that the board was wrong to postpone analyzing the regulations until the policy went into effect.
"Well, [implementation] happens at the end of September," Schultz told LifeSiteNews. "What difference does it make if you say you want to look at the regulations then?"
Many parents reminded school board members that last week's vote would be remembered when the board members ran for re-election.
The full school board meeting can be seen here.
WARNING - IT HAS BEGUN...
FCPS’ FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION COMMITTEE IS RECOMMENDING ADDING‘GENDER IDENTITY’ (TRANSGENDER) ETC. FOR CHILDREN BEGINNING IN MIDDLE SCHOOL, 7th GRADE and UP!
Despite all the assurances of the FCPS School Board Members on Thursday, May 7th that “nothing will change” after their vote, two business days later on Monday, May 11th the School Board made public the FLE Committee report recommending the addition of the Gender-Identity (Transgender) Agenda down to middle school students in 7th grade.
NEWSFLASH: The FLE Committee reported it had been working on this change for over one year!
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
THE FLE COMMITTEE REPORTED TO THE BOARD:
“PARENTS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO OPT OUT OF THE LESSONS WHICH ARE MOVED FROM THE FLE CURRICULUM INTO THE HEALTH CURRICULUM.”
(See link below for the full document. All language with strikeout through it will be moved to mental health lessons, and not be available for opt-out.)
Here are some statements pulled from the recommended objectives:
Grade 7: Students will be provided definitions for sexual orientation terms heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality; and the gender identity term transgender.
Grade 8: Individual identity will also be described as having four parts — biological gender, gender identity (includes transgender), gender role, and sexual orientation (includes heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual). The concept that sexuality is a broader spectrum will be introduced.
Grade 9: Emphasis will be placed on tolerance and nondiscrimination of all people.
Grade 10: Emphasis will be placed on an understanding that there is a broader, boundless, and fluid spectrum of sexuality that is developed throughout a lifetime. Sexual orientation and gender identity terms will be discussed with focus on appreciation for individual differences.
ACTIONS TO TAKE:
For New business on May 21 - 10 speaking slots, sign up 6 am May 18 at http://www.fcps.edu/schlbd/meetings/requestspeak.shtml.
Written comment from May 21 – June 19 - We will send a link when this is available.
BOARD VOTE — JUNE 25
Until May 21 please send email to the school board regarding this at fairfaxcountyschoolboard@fcps.edu:
ALSO CC:
Mychele Brickner – mbrickner1@icloud.com
Andrea Lafferty – alafferty@traditionalvalues.org
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Clearly this School Board, aside from Elizabeth Schultz (Springfield) and Patty Reed (Providence), have no intentions of respecting parent rights or representing the will of the people they are elected to serve.
Their behavior as OUR elected officials was on prime display for everyone to see at the May 7th School Board meeting.
Despite overwhelming opposition from the community the following 10 members arrogantly voted to add ‘gender identity’ (transgender) anyway.
Ryan McElveen - at-large
Ilryong Moon - at-large
Ted Velkoff - at-large
Megan McLaughlin - Braddock
Jane Strauss - Dranesville
Pat Hynes - Hunter Mill
Tamara Derenak Kaufax - Lee
Sandy Evans - Mason
Dan Storck - Mount Vernon
Kathy Smith - Sully
These School Board Members were very dismissive and condescending toward those opposed to their agenda. The crowd was upset by their comments and demeanor and spoke out.
Just a few brief examples (More to come later):
· Megan McLaughlin: “There seems to be confusion in the audience. This is not about change. Misinformation and fear about change bathroom or locker room policy is simply not true. It is just an update.”
· Ryan McElveen: “I would like to warmly welcome you to OUR house.” Astonishingly, Mr. McElveen does not realize that the house is not theirs but OURS!
· Kathy Smith: Total silence; She is running for Sully District Board of Supervisors seat.
Mychele Brickner mbrickner1@icloud.com
Andrea Lafferty alafferty@traditionalvalues.org
Can't be repeated often enough. It is ludicrous (and futile) to try to compete with what is really a tax-funded monopoly.
These schools never publish how many of their kids are receiving tutoring ( paid and/or unpaid), pre-schooling ( paid and/or unpaid), and **tons*** of “after-schooling” help ( paid and/or unpaid).
When test score are high, government schools claim all the credit for the hard work done IN THE HOME by the parents and kids.
When test scores are low government school blame the parents ( of couse!)
When test scores are low enough, government schools lower the standards and proclaim themselves a high scoring school!
Wow! What a scam!
Finally....It is my anecdotal observation that academically successful students ( both home and institutionalized) do the **same** amount of work and spend the **same** amount of time working IN THE HOME at the kitchen table.
So?....if both academically successful homeschoolers and successfully schooled institutionalized children are studying just as much IN THE HOME, then maybe the institutional school is playing no part whatsoever in a child's education!
Maybe, just maybe, we spend up to $30,000/year/child and the only thing government schools do is send a very expensive curriculum home to be followed IN THE HOME! If true, what a waste of both money and the child's life!
You get more of the behaviors you encourage. When we celebrate mental illness, we will get more teens claiming mental illness in a desperate bid for attention.
These schools never publish how many of their kids are receiving tutoring ( paid and/or unpaid), pre-schooling ( paid and/or unpaid), and **tons*** of “after-schooling” help ( paid and/or unpaid).
When test score are high, government schools claim all the credit for the hard work done IN THE HOME by the parents and kids.
When test scores are low government school blame the parents ( of couse!)
When test scores are low enough, government schools lower the standards and proclaim themselves a high scoring school!
EXACTLY, plus teachers throw scores out to bump up the kids scores.
Today on the BBC it was stated that even Vietnam is now rated as a better education system than here.
I remember when people went to college based on their high grades in high school, now anyone can go to college providing you take a placement test and even if you get a really low scores you can take classes and be admitted.
This is why a BA has become a joke as well as college.
That is part of the answer; but, for it to work well one would first have to go with a complete voucher system. Not just for poor minorities; everyone gets a voucher. Then, schools compete for your child (and their voucher) and parents would then be able to choose a school that would fit their child best.
Needless to say, the teacher's unions would never allow it.
‘”gender identity” as a protected class’
What the hell? so if you want to lop off your schmeckel you get special privileges?
The country has degraded into multiple warring groups.
There are private schools there. Catholic schools.
the solution to this is to mark the dressing rooms “penis” and “vagina”
You can “identify” any way you want, but you must use the room that matches your current private parts.
Calling it gender dysphoria implies a mental illness. That is transphobic. Please stand in front of our anti-aircraft gun now.
South Park was ahead of its time.
DANG!
Those parents and real girls have every reason to be upset. Why does his “right” trump theirs?
Trans-Nanny State PING!
(Pinging Laz ...)
” This is about DESTROYING six thousand years of Judeo-Christian culture.”
Yep....cut to the chase.
imagine those old Dominion bigot parents not wanting little willie in the girls’ locker room
H8TERS!
Obama and his left wing minions sure know how to move their agenda. All I can say is pull your kid out and send him/her to a private school. Costs a lot of money but you won't get pushed around as much and you will have more say in the curriculum.
Wow, just wow. And the Obama/DummycRat yokels can't figure out why little Obama and Michelle don't know how to read, write, do arithmetic and/or cursive? They are too busy teaching a girl that she may want to be a boy some day, or maybe she really just loves girls in that special way, but just in case she IS abnormally normal, she will have to learn how to put a condom on a banana.
You can “identify” any way you want, but you must use the room that matches your current private parts.
Brilliant! Once again a FReeper shows the way.
As I recall, Falls Church went heavily for scrubama twice. So I don’t see what the problem is ....
I don’t think that the students voted for Obama.
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